These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

This former industrial site has transformed into a community sculpture garden that hosts monthly Full Moon parties.

Once the tallest building in Detroit, this Gothic church houses some of the oldest stained-glass windows in the country.

A memorial in coal country commemorates the victims of an all-too-preventable mining disaster.

The site of the one and only battle of Lord Dunmore's War.

A secret, rocky playground hidden amongst the plain white beaches of the Florida coast.

This underwater old Texas hill town only resurfaces during harsh drought.

Beside a busy highway, a colony of Great Blue Herons raises hundreds of offspring each year.

During segregation, this Orlando hotel hosted performers like Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. Now it's a museum dedicated to preserving local Black history.

Measuring approximately 200 feet long, Swampy is the world's largest alligator-shaped building.

A renovated schoolhouse that highlights the history of Clarke County's Black community.

The Grand Ole Opry's big voice came from a small home in rural Virginia where she was eventually buried.

Was there a small "backpack nuke" hidden in the attic? JFK apparently thought so.

Formerly a lovely white sand beach this Hawaiian stretch is now a trap for countless tons of trash.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

Nestled between a college and a golf course, the garden is home to more than 2,500 rhododendrons.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

One of the few surviving examples of the first lock and dam system built on the Ohio River.

A melancholy guardian doubles as a judicious godmother to this small town cemetery.

One of the few places where you can explore a 1918 paddlewheel steamboat from stem to stern.

An Alaska livestock farm devotes itself to harvesting wool from creatures that once ran with mammoths and sabertooth tigers.

Clean, cold drinking water flows from a nondescript pipe in a roadside rock face.